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# Generated: 2026-09-02T00:28:34.187Z

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description: "He brought Plato back from the dead — not metaphorically. Ficino translated the complete works into Latin for the first time, cracked open Neoplatonism for a Europe that had forgotten it, and ran the Florentine Academy like a Renaissance think tank that bent the arc of philosophy itself."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in October 1433, Ficino was a Catholic priest with a side interest in astrology and a central obsession with ancient thought. He became the first scholar to translate all of Plato's surviving works into Latin, making the Greek philosopher legible to a continent that had lost him. His Florentine Academy — an attempt to resurrect Plato's original school — became the nerve center of early Renaissance humanism, pulling in the major academics of his era and shaping how European philosophy would unfold for centuries. He died in October 1499, a month shy of sixty-six, having spent his life making the old new again.